Special Courses (MSA or ECA or any colloquial dialect)

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This is for tailored courses upon the student's request, such as:
-MSA/ECA Conversation Classes: This class is targeting the student’s communicative skills. If the student desires a more effective way to enhance and strengthen Her/his fluency in the Arabic language, this is a perfect way to interact and target specific language areas. The dialogues are built on the courses’ contents and accommodate the student’s needs and requirements.

-Culture Class: This content-based course is designed for the high intermediate and advanced students to further develop their Arabic comprehension and interaction skills both written and oral. Materials are selected from a range of text types in both modern and traditional Arabic. Selected materials and activities aimed at raising students’ awareness of the more subtle and implicit cultural patterns as manifested in Arabic texts and media. The course content is designed around the theme of “Arabic Cultural Encounters with West” in order to allow for critical reading and viewing of course materials and to facilitate cross-cultural reflections in a form of discussions, presentations, translations, and written assignments.

-Translation Course: The purpose of this course is to help students in interpretation through discussing more categories that are specific during classes such as basic notions: source language – target language, different discourse – different style; Difficulties encountered in translation: ambiguous sentences, homophones; Specifics of the two languages concerned: exercises with short newspaper texts: idioms, sentence structure in both English and Arabic. The course will allow students to use a wide variety of subjects such as texts of political, social, cultural, or general interest.

-Business Arabic Course: The purpose of this course is to help students in reading and understanding, as well as writing well developed, and well-organized letters, reports, and other commercial documents. Besides learning special business phrases that help the student in using this language. The course offers different exercises and case studies for more exposure to real-life situations.

-Arabic Literature: The purpose of this course is to help students in reading and understanding Arabic modern literature through reading, understanding, and analyzing selective modern novels and poetry.

-MSA/ECA Media Courses: These courses’ materials are books, the news, TV shows, films, and news and are targeting the Media language. This course is designed to help students who are interested in journalism and understanding the news and media language.

-History: The purpose of this course is to help students who are interested in the Middle East History and the Arabic countries’ history through reading, understanding, and analyzing selective books and texts about the history in these areas. Student should
be intermediate or advanced in Arabic.

-Religious Language: These sessions are for those who are interested in the translation of the Biblical & Quranic scriptures. The teachers help in translating parts of the religious text to facilitate further understanding of the scriptures.

-Sudanese Dialect: There are two levels, novice and intermediate to learn the Sudanese dialect of Khartoum. It is the widespread spoken Arabic dialect in Sudan. The materials are targeting daily life conversations to enable the student to easily communicate in the Sudanese dialect. Each course has a book with listening tracks.

-Other Dialects: Though the Egyptian Colloquial Arabic is the most spoken and understood all over Arab countries, each country speaks its own Colloquial dialect. ATO presents courses for most of the Arabic dialects, such as: Levantine, Gulf area, Saudi Arabia.. etc.

-Children's Course: This course targets children who have or do not have a background in the Arabic language. We offer a selection of tutors who have the tools necessary to teach children from K-12.

Note:
- Student receives 2 hours of conversational classes for free when booking 30 or more hours.
- If you have a background in Arabic, it's recommended to undertake an online Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) to asses your level conducted by a certified specialized tester by ACTFL.